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El Toro Links

Last post by Parrotpaul « Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:38 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:54 am

In lieu of the old board's header :

The old board and archives

The El Toro Info Site

El Toro Info Site News

El Toro Info Site Message...

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Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:38 pm
California Military Base is Being Transformed Into one of the Largest City Parks in the U.S.

Last post by Hanna « Tue Jul 18, 2023 6:41 pm

by Hanna » Tue Jul 18, 2023 6:41 pm

Rating: 2%

Construction of a massive municipal park—over 20 years in the making, is finally underway in the city of Irvine.

They say if California became its...

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Tue Jul 18, 2023 6:41 pm
History of the El Toro Marine Corps air base and the Great Park project.

Last post by Wabash « Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:16 pm
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by Hanna » Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:40 pm

Walking down memory lane through measures A, S, F and W

I almost forgot that the infamous county bankruptcy took place just a month after Measure A...

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Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:16 pm
Newport Beach vs. Newport Beach at John Wayne Airport

Last post by John Q. Public « Wed May 15, 2019 9:29 am
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by Hanna » Tue May 14, 2019 11:05 am

Looks like the air battle over Newport Beach has flared up again. In a mini-replay of recent history, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is...

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Last post by John Q. Public
Wed May 15, 2019 9:29 am
El Toro info site is now archived by the county

Last post by Hanna « Tue May 23, 2017 9:00 pm

by Hanna » Tue May 23, 2017 9:00 pm

Some links are now dead, of course, but the library still has relevance.

For Laguna Niguel?

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Last post by Hanna
Tue May 23, 2017 9:00 pm
Congressman John Mica (R-FL)

Last post by Wabash « Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:50 pm
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by Hanna » Sat Nov 12, 2016 12:32 pm

Was a thorn in our side. As the chairman of the committee on transportation he, of course, supported the proposed airport at El Toro.

Since the old...

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Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:50 pm
Airport blog to wrap up after nearly 20 years

Last post by Troglodyte « Fri Nov 13, 2015 8:18 pm
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by Hanna » Fri Nov 13, 2015 11:43 am

Dana Point resident, Leonard Kranser, who has been posting Southern California airport related news to the El Toro Info website www.eltoroairport.org...

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Fri Nov 13, 2015 8:18 pm
Len's letter: Great Park, great airport, great waste

Last post by Wabash « Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:48 pm
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by Hanna » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:55 am

Forgotten in the discussion over Great Park spending is the huge expected cost of the El Toro Airport that the park concept replaced. Until 2002, the...

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Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:48 pm
FAA's new ATC system NextGen causing major noise pollution

Last post by Hanna « Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:17 pm

by Hanna » Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:17 pm

During the fight against El Toro airport, we were promised by the supes that planes would take eastward, away from population center. Of course, no...

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Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:17 pm
Cessna airplane makes emergency landing in Great Park

Last post by Parrotpaul « Sat Nov 29, 2014 7:37 am
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by Hanna » Fri Nov 28, 2014 8:54 pm

A small Cessna airplane made an emergency landing in the Orange County Great Park on Thursday afternoon after experiencing engine trouble, Orange...

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Sat Nov 29, 2014 7:37 am
Bonnie is baaaaaaaack!!!

Last post by Wabash « Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:48 pm
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by cOCk_Fight » Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:29 pm
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I am really perplexed by this letter of hers. :eh?:
She was always extolling the joys of how wonderful airports are. \:D/
Now 10 years later she...
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Last post by Wabash
Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:48 pm
Cheers greet demolition of Great Park runways

Last post by Parrotpaul « Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:08 pm
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by Hanna » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:52 am

From the eltoro info

Cheers and confetti erupted Tuesday night at the Great Park as a bulldozer scooped away a small pile of rubble, marking the...

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Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:08 pm
Something wrong with eltoroinfo.org?

Last post by Hanna « Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:48 pm
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by Hanna » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:42 am

Yes, I still visit it on occasions. And Len keep updating it, this time is about aviation in SoCal.

But now it says: This site is temporarily...

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Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:48 pm
Dream Plan Tests Irvine, Calif., Again

Last post by Troglodyte « Sun May 12, 2013 9:24 am
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by Hanna » Sat May 11, 2013 5:04 pm

From the Wall St. Journal 5/5/13

For over a decade, city officials in Irvine, Calif., have dreamed of building one of the most ambitious urban parks...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Sun May 12, 2013 9:24 am
The Great Park. Ha!

Last post by Parrotpaul « Thu May 02, 2013 3:23 pm
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by Tommy Tar » Thu May 02, 2013 9:01 am

Construction is set to begin on the first phase of a massive housing development that is part of the city of Irvine's long-awaited Great Park...

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Thu May 02, 2013 3:23 pm
Los Angeles Approves $5 Billion Airport Modernization

Last post by Parrotpaul « Thu May 02, 2013 11:56 am
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by Hanna » Thu May 02, 2013 11:41 am

By ANDY PASZTOR

LOS ANGELES—The City Council on Tuesday approved a politically divisive modernization and safety-enhancement plan for Los Angeles...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Thu May 02, 2013 11:56 am
Sixteen years of eltoroairport.org

Last post by SoMelo « Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:38 pm
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by Hanna » Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:13 am

Congratulations, Len.

El Toro Info site marks 16 years of reporting airport news

The El Toro website posted its first report in October 1996 and...

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Last post by SoMelo
Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:38 pm
10 years later, who was right on El Toro?

Last post by Parrotpaul « Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:53 am
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by Hanna » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:07 pm
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10 years later, who was right on El Toro?
By JEFF OVERLEY
OCR

2010-03-07

Every good public policy battle has its competing claims, and 10 years...
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Last post by Parrotpaul
Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:53 am
Rick Reavis

Last post by SoMelo « Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:54 pm
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by John Q. Public » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:08 am

One of Mission Viejo’s colorful and involved citizens passed away Tuesday night. Rick Reavis, husband of former mayor Gail Reavis, succumbed after a...

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Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:54 pm
Richard Dixon

Last post by GOODave « Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:28 am
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by John Q. Public » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:24 pm

Former Lake Forest City Councilman and Eric Clapton lookalike. I had the pleasure of talking to him a few times. Nice guy.

Not a good day for...

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Last post by GOODave
Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:28 am
The answer is.................

Last post by Red « Tue May 10, 2011 9:43 pm
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by Red » Tue May 10, 2011 1:22 pm

No!

Why?

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Tue May 10, 2011 9:43 pm
For Developer, California Dream Is a Reality

Last post by Hanna « Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:12 pm

by Hanna » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:12 pm

JANUARY 5, 2011

For Developer, California Dream Is a Reality

By ROBBIE WHELAN
Wall St. Journal

In the latest sign that financing is starting to...

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Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:12 pm
Taken for a ride

Last post by Parrotpaul « Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:44 pm
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by Troglodyte » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:52 am

I see that the CEO of the Great Park has elevated his position so far into the stratosphere that he now labels any reporter that might ask some...

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Last post by Parrotpaul
Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:44 pm
More for Money

Last post by Troglodyte « Sun May 02, 2010 5:48 pm
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by Hanna » Sun May 02, 2010 10:12 am

More for Money - OCBJ Readers Letters

The OCBJ calls John Wayne Airport’s addition of a third terminal an “expansion”. (“John Wayne Nears Midway...

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Last post by Troglodyte
Sun May 02, 2010 5:48 pm
I cannot believe people from LA still whine about El toro

Last post by Hanna « Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:16 pm

by Hanna » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:16 pm

Michael Hiltzik: How to finance a Great Park
November 30, 2009 | 3:00 am

Ever since the federal government decommissioned the El Toro Marine Corps...

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Last post by Hanna
Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:16 pm
Putting the green in Orange County Great Park

Last post by Hanna « Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:24 pm

by Hanna » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:24 pm

latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik30-2009nov30,0,7893019.column

Putting the green in Orange County Great Park

Michael Hiltzik

November 30, 2009...

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Last post by Hanna
Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:24 pm
Federal officials reject restrictions on night flights at BU

Last post by Hanna « Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:31 pm

by Hanna » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:31 pm

Federal officials reject restrictions on night flights at Bob Hope Airport - LA Times

Federal officials dealt a blow to a decades-long fight to...

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Last post by Hanna
Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:31 pm
"Greece and Portugal" - old memories

Last post by sbayhills « Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:38 pm
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by Hanna » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:02 pm

As I was reading the Wall St. Journal, I ran into a story that mentioned Greece and Portugal in one sentence: Moody’s Raises Red Flags on Greece ,...

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Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:38 pm
The tragedy next to Miramar

Last post by Hanna « Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:08 pm

by Hanna » Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:08 pm

The one where a fighter jet lost an engine and crashed on a house, killing a whole family.

This, of course, is why airports should not be next to...

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Last post by Hanna
Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:08 pm
More Blast From the Past Fraud Allegations in Irvine Electio

Last post by Hanna « Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:47 pm

by Hanna » Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:47 pm

More Blast From the Past Fraud Allegations in Irvine Election
Posted by Matt Coker in A Clockwork Orange
November 3, 2008 2:59 PM

This examines a...

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Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:47 pm

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